November 18, 2010

AR and M16 stats

Here is some info on on the military’s spec’s for the AR platform. There is a lot of misunderstanding about the what and the how of this weapon.

Please note, the M16A2 and M16A3 are the same rifle except the A3 is full auto while the A2 has a three round burst. This makes sense being that the A3 was introduced at the same time as the A2 which was BEFORE the picatinny rail standard was made.

In boot camp is was drilled into our minds that the M16A2 was a lightweight, magazine fed, air cooled, shoulder fired, selective fire 5.56mm rifle.

The original M16 weighed 6.35 lbs while the M16A1 weighed 6.55 lbs. The A2 mod boosted the weight up to 7.5 lbs.